Dogfooding the four read commands (posture, tokens, manifest, whats-active)
surfaced four defect classes, all in the seam between what a command template
promises and what the scanner behind it actually does.
M-BUG-40, fifth arm: posture wrote four temp files it could never read back.
#49 closed the $$/cross-block class in four commands, but posture survived it —
and so did the guard written to prevent exactly this. The guard compared each
$$ path to the block that created it, so a path written once and then read via
prose had no second occurrence to flag. Measured live: written from PID 21614,
read attempted from PID 23772. The invariant is now blanket (no $$ in any temp
path), which also caught fix.md and feature-gap.md.
M-BUG-43: 6 of 7 scanners write their payload to stdout when --raw/--json is
set even when --output-file was given, and the templates redirected only
stderr. Measured: posture 255 182 B, whats-active 35 922 B, drift 28 316 B,
manifest 23 825 B, tokens 8 768 B. fix and feature-gap never read the file they
wrote, so both recovered one letter grade from a quarter-megabyte dump.
tokens swallowed --json and --with-telemetry-recipe: documented, never
threaded, so --json returned the humanized payload where the docs promise
byte-stable v5.0.0 output.
M-BUG-42: manifest's render contract asked for {load}; the payload carries
loadPattern, so the Load column rendered blank for all 96 rows.
Four new tests (1449 -> 1453), each verified red before the fix. The
render-contract test checks {field} names against a live payload from a
fixture, since a hardcoded key list would drift. Frozen v5.0.0 snapshots
untouched.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VGCk9o27eWo9uXLjkZTXEq
Dogfooding `plan` + `implement` against a throwaway config surfaced one root
defect with many arms: the command templates treat consecutive fenced blocks as
one shell. They are not. Every ```bash fence runs as its own Bash call in its own
process, so a variable set in one block is empty in the next, and `$$` is a
different PID (measured: 21710 vs 22109).
The planner agent confirmed the sharpest arm at runtime, reporting that
`Mode: $RAW_FLAG` "arrived literally unsubstituted" — `--raw` was documented in
three command files while being functionally dead. A machine sweep found the same
root in 20 places across 9 files, well past the two the written fasit predicted:
- `$RAW_FLAG` read from non-shell agent prompts (analyze, plan, implement)
- `$TMPFILE` read across blocks (tokens, manifest, whats-active,
plugin-health) — each command could not read the file it had just written
- `$GLOBAL_FLAG` across blocks (fix)
- `$TODAY` never assigned in any block (campaign), passing
`--reference-date ""` to a write CLI in six places
- three `$$` temp paths handed to the Read tool (fix), which expands neither
All now follow the hardened drift.md pattern: a fixed literal path, or a
re-derivation inside each block that needs it.
Also fixed, all confirmed against ground truth rather than inferred:
- `implement` printed a rollback ID it never captured (the timestamp lived only
inside a command substitution) — the one message a user reads after a bad run
- `plan` reported "No analysis results found" for valid sessions, because Read
was pointed at a glob it cannot expand; now uses Glob and verifies the
analysis report exists before spawning the agent
- five phase commands wrote state.yaml with two of four required fields; since
the agent writes all four, a follow-up write silently deleted the rest
- `implement` promised rollback deletes created files; rollback deliberately
leaves them (M-BUG-26 still open) — the doc, not the engine, was wrong
- `implement` claimed a score delta with no pre-change measurement
- `verifier-agent` was told to write a report it has no tool to write
- dead `Task` tool name in always-loaded rule context; planner-agent template
demonstrated the inline file content its own line 110 forbids
The sweeps land as tests/commands/command-shell-state-shape.test.mjs, verified
red before the fix and proven able to fail by reintroducing the defect. Two
existing tests asserted the old bash-block mechanism rather than the intent and
were updated. Suite 1449/0; frozen v5.0.0 snapshots and all scanner code
untouched.
Not fixed, deliberately: neither command scope-gates its actions to the audit
target. The generated plan included an edit to a real file under ~/.claude,
outside the throwaway target, because the skill/agent scanners are machine-wide.
That is a design change, not a side fix.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0195udHgCcFegzm7ecKku2Yc
DEL B chunk `interview` (+ discover/status/cleanup/help). Fasit written before
the run predicted 8 defects and refuted 4 candidates; all 8 confirmed, all 4
refutations held, and three predictions turned out too narrow.
- M-BUG-36: `drift --list` reached the command as 0 bytes. drift-cli accepted
--output-file but list mode ignored it, and the listing goes to stderr, which
the command discards per ux-rules rule 2. Fixing the caller alone would not
have helped.
- M-BUG-37: feature-gap's "Create backup" step ran fix-cli without --apply.
Dry-run is the default, so no backup existed (backupId: null) while the
command went on to edit config believing it could roll back.
- M-BUG-38: fix-cli told users to recover with scanners/rollback-cli.mjs, which
does not exist. Dead reference in the one message read after a bad fix.
- M-BUG-21 fourth arm: five templates carried literal [--global]/[--full-machine]
inside executable bash blocks. A bracketed placeholder does not start with a
dash, so every scanner's arg loop takes it as the scan target.
- interview and analyze never said which session they act on; interview could
rewind a finished session; cleanup interpolated an unvalidated id into rm -rf
(an empty id deletes every session); status advertised a `resume` command that
does not exist and documented an `all` argument it never parsed.
TDD: 9 red tests first, including a machine sweep for dead /config-audit
references and for bracketed flags in bash blocks. Suite 1432 -> 1441/0.
Frozen v5.0.0 snapshots untouched; --raw/--json contracts unchanged.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UGvA1uUQn2hPBPMaCKK6x3
Wave 5 Step 13. Threads the humanizer vocabulary through five audit/
analysis command templates and adds a shape test that locks the
structure in place.
- commands/posture.md, tokens.md, feature-gap.md (findings-renderers):
reference userImpactCategory/userActionLanguage/relevanceContext;
remove hardcoded A/B/C/D/F-to-prose tables (humanizer owns the
grade-context vocabulary now via the stderr scorecard headline).
- commands/manifest.md, whats-active.md (inventory CLIs): add --raw
pass-through for CLI-surface consistency. --raw is a no-op in these
CLIs, but the flag is threaded through so users get uniform behaviour.
- All five files: --raw flag parsed from $ARGUMENTS and passed verbatim
to the underlying scanner CLI when present.
tests/commands/group-a-shape.test.mjs (new, +5 tests, 767 → 772):
- structural: every file has a bash invocation block, Read tool
reference, and --raw/$ARGUMENTS plumbing
- findings-renderers only: at least one humanized field referenced;
no hardcoded "[grade] grade is..." prose tables
New read-only command that shows everything Claude Code actually loads for a
given repo — plugins, skills, MCP servers, hooks, CLAUDE.md cascade — with
source attribution (user/project/plugin) and rough token estimates. Helps
identify candidates for disabling without guessing.
Added:
- scanners/lib/active-config-reader.mjs — pure async helper: readActiveConfig,
detectGitRoot, walkClaudeMdCascade, readClaudeJsonProjectSlice (longest-prefix
matching for .claude.json projects), enumeratePlugins, enumerateSkills,
readActiveHooks, readActiveMcpServers, estimateTokens (markdown 4 c/tok,
json 3.5 c/tok, frontmatter cap 150 tokens, item flat 15)
- scanners/whats-active.mjs — thin CLI shim: --json, --output-file, --verbose,
--suggest-disables
- commands/whats-active.md — renders tables via Read tool; honors UX rules
- tests/lib/active-config-reader.test.mjs — 36 tests, all green (integration
fixture built in tmpdir with fake HOME, .claude.json prefix matching,
plugin discovery, hook/MCP merge from all scopes)
Verified:
- Performance budget: <2s wall-clock (smoke test: 102ms on real repo)
- Token estimates within ±20% of hand-computed values
- Read-only: no writeFile/mkdir/unlink in production code
- Self-audit: Plugin Health scanner reports 0 findings (Grade A)
- Full test suite: 522 tests, 512 pass (10 pre-existing conflict-detector
failures on main — unrelated to this change, reproducible on clean HEAD)
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